Return a feasible starting point for player one.
This starting point is for the CVXOPT formulation and not for
- the original game. The basic premise is that if you normalize
- :meth:`e2`, then you get a point in :meth:`K` that makes a unit
- inner product with :meth:`e2`. We then get to choose the primal
- objective function value such that the constraint involving
- :meth:`L` is satisfied.
+ the original game. The basic premise is that if you scale
+ :meth:`e2` by the reciprocal of its squared norm, then you get a
+ point in :meth:`K` that makes a unit inner product with
+ :meth:`e2`. We then get to choose the primal objective function
+ value such that the constraint involving :meth:`L` is satisfied.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+
+ dict
+ A dictionary with two keys, 'x' and 's', which contain the
+ vectors of the same name in the CVXOPT primal problem
+ formulation.
+
+ The vector ``x`` consists of the primal objective function
+ value concatenated with the strategy (for player one) that
+ achieves it. The vector ``s`` is essentially a dummy
+ variable, and is computed from the equality constraing in
+ the CVXOPT primal problem.
+
"""
p = self.e2() / (norm(self.e2()) ** 2)
dist = self.K().ball_radius(self.e1())
def player2_start(self):
"""
Return a feasible starting point for player two.
+
+ This starting point is for the CVXOPT formulation and not for
+ the original game. The basic premise is that if you scale
+ :meth:`e1` by the reciprocal of its squared norm, then you get a
+ point in :meth:`K` that makes a unit inner product with
+ :meth:`e1`. We then get to choose the dual objective function
+ value such that the constraint involving :meth:`L` is satisfied.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+
+ dict
+ A dictionary with two keys, 'y' and 'z', which contain the
+ vectors of the same name in the CVXOPT dual problem
+ formulation.
+
+ The ``1``-by-``1`` vector ``y`` consists of the dual
+ objective function value. The last :meth:`dimension` entries
+ of the vector ``z`` contain the strategy (for player two)
+ that achieves it. The remaining entries of ``z`` are
+ essentially dummy variables, computed from the equality
+ constraint in the CVXOPT dual problem.
+
"""
q = self.e1() / (norm(self.e1()) ** 2)
dist = self.K().ball_radius(self.e2())